مطالعات اجتماعی روانشناختی زنان (Nov 2020)
Gender Differences in Students' Value System, Engagement, Social Competence, and Cognitive Styles
Abstract
Abstract The value priorities of individuals are influenced by a variety of factors that affect individuals' social behaviors and actions. The present study was conducted to investigate gender differences in students' value system, Engagement, social competence, and cognitive styles. The statistical population of this study included all undergraduate students of the University of Tehran in the academic year 1397-98. The research sample was 150 male and female students of Tehran University who were selected by stratified random sampling. The value system questionnaire, the engagement of students’ scale belongs to Gunuc & Kuzu, Hart's competence perception, and the carton cognitive styles questionnaire were used to collect information. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance. The results showed that male students scored higher on material values, cognitive competence, social competence, and physical competence. In using educational strategies and teaching methods, education professionals need to consider the gender and individual disparities of students based on physical, psychological, cultural, and spiritual aspects. Keywords Value System, Academic Engagement, Social Competence, Cognitive Styles, Students Introduction Values as social phenomena are one of the important characteristics of societies that form the cultural structure. Values have short-term and long-term effects in various political and social dimensions, and recognizing them plays a very important role in identifying cultural developments (Saha and Sharma, 2019). The value system refers to the factors and elements that are respected by many of the individuals in society and that can meet their material and spiritual needs. According to some experts, this value system is categorized into primary or material values related to the biological needs of individuals) and secondary or extra-material values including social and moral values); In such a way that the general system of values is affected by both types (Zare Shahabadi and Turkan, 2015). Zare Shahabadi and Turkan (2015) in a study aimed at investigating the relationship between the social security and youth value system of Yazd University students found that students have materialistic value priorities and there is no significant difference in materialistic and non-materialist value priorities of students based on age, sex, the field of study, marital status and socio-economic status. The feeling of social security also has a significant inverse correlation with material values and a positive correlation with metamaterial values. One of the most important and influential internal factors in this field is the cognitive style of individuals (Mokhtari, 2014). Cognitive style is a method by which the learner processes information and has different types, such as context-dependent and context-independent cognitive styles. In a study, Riazi, Ebrahimian Shiadeh, and Mousavi Amirabadi (2015) found that negative emotions and cognitive ability play an important role in predicting procrastination, explaining a total of 63 percent of the procrastination variance. Over the last two decades, the academic conflict has attracted the attention of researchers and educators due to its comprehensiveness in explaining students' motivation and learning, as well as its ability in predicting students’ performance, progress, and success at school. (Lam et al., 2016). Research literature shows that there is a positive relationship between academic motivation and quality of learning and academic achievement (Gonius and Kozo, 2015). One of the components of self-concept is the perception of competence (Waters, Culpin, Van Dum and Verchern, 2015) which is the process of becoming aware of one's characteristics, type of relationships with others, feedback on events, capacities, and abilities (Harter, 1982). According to Harter (1982), the perception of competence includes five areas: academic competence (academic performance and intelligence), social acceptance (communication with peers), athletic competence (sports activities), physical competence (physical perception), and behavior (behavior with other people). Method This study is a fundamental post-event research (causal-comparative) that was conducted retrospectively. In terms of time, this survey is cross-sectional, and in terms of depth, it is an expansive type, the data of which have been collected using a questionnaire. The statistical population of this study includes all male and female undergraduate students of the University of Tehran. In this study, the faculties were divided into four main categories: humanities, basic sciences, technology, and art. A sample of 150 people (75 girls and 75 boys) was selected using stratified random sampling based on gender and field of study. The mean age of the sample group was 22.58 for boys with a standard deviation of 3.01 and 22.41 with a standard deviation of 2.58 in the age range of 18 to 30 years. Moral licenses are obtained according to the ethical standards of each faculty. The students were classified based on their gender and field of study and responded to the Value System Questionnaire (VSQ) of Zare et al. (2015), Student Achievement (SES) Gonius and Cozo (2015), Harter (1982) Competence Perception (1982) and Carton (KAI) Curton (1967). 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